Friday, April 19, 2024
A Russian space capsule with three astronauts aboard has docked with the International Space Station after a fast-track trip to the orbiting laboratory, AP/Washington Post informed. The Soyuz capsule docked at 22:48 GMT Saturday, just six hours and 20 minutes after blasting off from Russia’s launch complex in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The...
Hackers have breached SyTech, a contractor for FSB, Russia's national intelligence service, from where they stole information about internal projects the company was working on behalf of the agency, ZDNet reports. The breach took place last weekend, on July 13, when a group of hackers going by the name of...
A controversial new draft bill that would force all smartphone makers to pre-install Russian-made software on their devices sold in the country has been submitted to the State Duma, Reuters reported. In a bid to support domestic software producers, Russian lawmakers from the ruling United Russia party want to make...
Venezuela is considering using the Russian alternative to the traditional international payment system SWIFT, as the country braces for new U.S. sanctions that could further weaken its financial sector, Bloomberg reported citing sources. As the monetary regulator’s approval is necessary if Venezuela wants to use the payment platform, the country’s...
A Russian AI-powered selfie-editing app that has been having a viral moment lately has become the center of a controversy after being called out over privacy concerns, TechCrunch reports. FaceApp uses neural networks and artificial intelligence to add a few years and creates a pretty compelling version of the user’s...
Global tech news publisher TechNode is expanding to the Russian-language market in partnership with local company Eurasia Development Limited, the company said in a statement. TechNode Russia will cover Asian technologies and startups, especially those in China and Russia. TechNode was launched in 2007 as an effort to cover China’s technology...
Russia’s Yandex has launched a beta version of its food retail app Supercheck on its price comparison platform Yandex.Market, the country’s biggest internet company said this week, according to Vedomosti. The app allows users to compare prices and assortments on a store level, form a basket, and get 1% cashback...
Russia has offered to supply South Korea with a key material needed to make semiconductor chips amid an escalating trade feud between Seoul and Tokyo, Hankyoreh reported. Citing an unnamed government official, the South Korean news outlet reported Russia had recently notified Seoul through diplomatic channels that it was willing...
China’s telecom major Huawei plans to significantly increase its sales in Russia and has contacted several Russian tech firms to create joint ventures and use their technologies, RBC reported on Wednesday citing sources. Over the past few months, Huawei has contacted several Russian firms, including the developers of Elbrus processors...
Russia’s Roscosmos has announced plans to support long-term lunar missions by 3D printing structures made from on-site material, Newsweek writes. The space corporation’s declaration adds to plans made by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) that also intend to use Lunar or Martian regolith, which is the dusty layer...